Asked for a job description, Neild offered -- complete with a bit of a warning for those thinking about becoming nose tackles -- what he does.

"I'm not going to sugarcoat it, I take a beating, but it goes both ways," Neild said. "I get double-teamed, I get triple-teamed. ... You can't be a nice guy to play that position, there is contact every play."

Contact he revels in, enjoys, lives for.

This 6-foot-2, 305-pound barrel-of-a-man wouldn't have it any other way.